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International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
The International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (IJCL) publishes original research covering methodological, applied and theoretical work in any area of corpus linguistics. Through its focus on empiric...
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January 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Welcome to the #IJCL team @lukeccollins.bsky.social!
Brilliant to have you on board!
And thank you Natalie for your #IJCL time with us!

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📣 We've got some news! 🥁

We are delighted to welcome @lukeccollins.bsky.social‬ to the #IJCL team!
Luke is joining us as our new assistant editor.
He is taking over from Natalie Finlayson - thank you Natalie for all your work & best of luck with the new projects!

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June 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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January 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Our IJCL special issue on ‘Corpus Approaches to Business Communication’ is now out! With thanks to my co-editor @susannekopf.bsky.social and the wonderful authors who produced 5 great papers. Take a look, there’s some truly rich findings and innovative methods in there! benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
December 10, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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Martin Schweinberger and Michael Haugh introduce the IJCL Special Issue on #reproducibility, #replicability and #robustness in corpus linguistics.

Writing in relation to FAIR and CARE principles, the authors provide actionable strategies for enhancing rigor.

#openscience

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Reproducibility, replicability, and robustness in corpus linguistics | John Benjamins
Abstract This introduction to the special issue Reproducibility, Replicability, and Robustness in Corpus Linguistics calls for more transparent and robust research practices in the field. It situates ...
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July 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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In the first paper from our upcoming special issue on #reproducibility and #transparency in #corpuslinguistics, Joseph Flanagan clarifies key terms in "Reproducibility, replicability, robustness, and generalizability in corpus linguistics"

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February 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
ijcl.bsky.social
📣 We've got some news! 🥁

We are delighted to welcome @lukeccollins.bsky.social‬ to the #IJCL team!
Luke is joining us as our new assistant editor.
He is taking over from Natalie Finlayson - thank you Natalie for all your work & best of luck with the new projects!

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June 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Work on this started in spring 2023 - now it is finally published! :-)
What a nano-GPT can (not) tell us about spoken language
Michael T. L. Pace-Sigge and Evangs Mailoa
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
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Rec. 01 Nov 2024 Acc. 20 Mar 2026
Pub.: 25 Sept 2026
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September 25, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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In our first #onlinefirst paper of 2025, the authors show how positions of contrastive adverbs, emphatic pronouns and "quant à" constructions vary in writing vs. speech and formal vs. informal contexts

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January 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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OUT NOW: Guest Editor David Wright introduces the Special Issue on Corpus perspectives on #LegalDiscourse

Wright draws out the themes explored across the papers in the issue, as indicative of the cutting edge of forensic linguistics – showing what corpus studies can do!

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April 3, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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That's right: remmeber life before the Covid-19 pandemic?

@journolinguist.bsky.social explores potential nostalgic markers in news about Covid as a methodological reflection on hypothesis-testing in #corpuslinguistics

What do we learn when we don't get expected results?
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September 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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How do emojis & homoglyphs affect corpus tokenisation, and why does it matter? 🧐

OUT NOW:
@matteodic.bsky.social explores how small discrepancies in tokenisation can distort linguistic analysis and undermine data fidelity 🔍

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June 23, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Do machine produced texts offer new insights into the workings of spoken language?

Michael Pace-Sigge & Evangs Mailoa investigate how far a GPT algorithm is able to process transcribed colloquial spoken language and subsequently generate text that looks like natural speech.

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September 25, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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January 20, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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...Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27/4 (2022), 529–553.
Open access here: doi.org/10.1075/ijcl....

And this is your gateway to CorPH: chronhib.maynoothuniversity.ie/chronhibWebs...
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September 17, 2023 at 5:19 PM
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OUT NOW: @leighharrington.bsky.social , @drkevingerigk.bsky.social & Maria Fano Gonzalez offer a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of representations of fuel poverty and the (new) fuel poor in UK newspapers

Work carried out in association with fuelpovertyresearch.net

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Plunged into fuel poverty | John Benjamins
Abstract Fuel poverty, a household’s inability to achieve thermal comfort in line with a healthy standard of living at a reasonable cost, became an increasingly prevalent and visible socio-economic is...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Two new book reviews!:

@mariannagracheva.bsky.social reviews Le Foll's (2024)
Textbook English: A multi-dimensional approach
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and Holly Baker reviews Kaunisto & Schilk (2024)
Challenges in corpus linguistics: Rethinking corpus compilation and analysis
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Review of Le Foll (2024): Textbook English: A multi-dimensional approach
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May 19, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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Here is a quick recap of the book reviews we have seen published recently in IJCL, available #onlinefirst.

Starting with:
Ding Huang’s review of Meyer (2023), ‘English corpus linguistics: An introduction’ (Cambridge University Press) doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
Review of Meyer (2023): English corpus linguistics: An introduction | John Benjamins
Welcome to e-content platform of John Benjamins Publishing Company. Here you can find all of our electronic books and journals, for purchase and download or subscriber access.
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July 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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I've started with @ijclark.bsky.social's excellent piece on AI and now going through the references bsky.app/profile/ijcl...
March 14, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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OUT NOW: Alan Partington and @diegolieugenia.bsky.social advance Lexical Priming (LP) theory, responding to Michael Hoey's desire that the theory be tested on discourse types that go beyond newspaper texts and in languages other than English – in this instance, Japanese.

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Lexical Priming theory | John Benjamins
Abstract This paper is an early step in a wider project which, on the behest of the late Prof Michael Hoey, attempts to review the evolution of Lexical Priming (LP) theory since its first appearance i...
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September 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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INTRODUCING: the HUM19 corpus, designed by @fstradling.bsky.social, Brian Walker, Hazel Price, Dan McIntyre & Michael Burke

This off-the-peg specialised reference corpus of 19th century British and Irish novels serves both as a study corpus and comparator
#CorpusStylistics

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August 4, 2026 at 9:24 AM
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How do we explore intra-register variation?

@mariannagracheva.bsky.social and @jesse-egbert.bsky.social present a framework for communicative text analysis and illustrate register comparisons for the extent of internal communicative and corresponding linguistic variation

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September 5, 2026 at 6:49 AM
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OUT NOW:
@corpusling.bsky.social and Kelvin K. H. Lee introduce the Document Similarity tool, which gives corpus compilers more control over the deduplication process.

Reported case studies demonstrate how consequential deduplication is to corpus-based discourse research.

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June 16, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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#reproducibility #replicability #robustness
Achieving stability in corpus-based analysis of word types | John Benjamins
Abstract Rank-ordered lists of word types are ubiquitous in corpus linguistics and applied linguistics. Word lists are commonly developed as aids for language teaching and learning, vocabulary testing...
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September 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM